Microsoft Introduces SideSight: Multi-Touch Interface that Takes Away the Touch
Posted 10/22/08 at 07:30:12 PM by Alex Castle

Pay attention, mobile-makers; Microsoft is showing off a new technology called SideSight at the User Interface Software and Technology conference in Monterey. SideSight allows for a mobile, touch-screen device with a twist: you don’t have to touch the screen.
Instead, the phone is controlled by moving your fingers in the space on either side of the device—essentially expanding the interface real estate greatly over a traditional touch screen. By moving your hands around the outside of the prototype SideSight device, objects and images on the screen can be rotated and manipulated, and text and pages can be scrolled through.
SideSight detects motion with an array of ten infrared proximity sensors lined up along each side. The prototype also features a smaller, traditional touch screen, allowing a user to write on the screen with a stylus in one hand, while moving the “page” by moving the other hand beside the device, simulating the way people write with a pen and paper.
Is this technology just a gimmick, or are we seeing the future of mobile devices? Give us your thoughts after the jump.
"Hey, take your hand off my
Submitted by Khaled on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 2:19am
"Hey, take your hand off my phone" won't work anymore ...
"distance your hand away from my phone by 20cm"!
looks like a gimmick
MS eats it young
Submitted by Bender2000 on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 5:58am
So this tech renders the Surface moot. Eat that iPhone and Android with your fancy pants touch screens! Now lets see some innovative devices take this ball and run run run with it.
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